fiction and musings from a gay black dude with delusions above his station
This week has been an emotional roller-coaster. I can’t recall the last time I felt such crushing sadness about a public event, about the death of someone I never knew. I range from anger about George Zimmerman’s acquittal to deep sadness that Trayvon Martin is not still alive and well and preparing to go to…
Last year I wrote that I just wanted George Zimmerman to face trial for shooting Trayvon Martin. This was when a trial seemed doubtful because no one seemed willing to file charges against him. Mr. Zimmerman was allowed to remain free and unencumbered from February 26, 2012, the date of the shooting, to April 11, 2012,…
I opened the Oakland Tribune the other day and found a most shocking headline: “Mehserle asks appeals court for new trial.” I swear I thought it was a typo. Mr. Mehserle, as you may recall, is the former BART officer who feared Oscar Grant as a big scary black man and shot him at point blank range. Mr. Grant…
There are apologies and then there are apologies. Some are spoken in anger, before the true cool down has taken place. “Well, I said I’m sorry!” Reflection had yet to take place. The words ring hollow. A favorite among politicos, actors, and other public figures is the now-famous Non-Apology Apology. The typical NAA takes the…
(Editor’s note (4/11/2012): A link was added to this piece, in the first sentence, to a CBS News article which quotes Mr. Zimmerman’s now ex-attorney, Craig Sonner, verifying that The Real George Zimmerman website does in fact belong to George Zimmerman. It is on this basis that the gar spot accepts the veracity of the…
